rjr162

Well, here is an update. I just purchased a NEW EVO 3D. This phone also has the Andriod operating system. My Hero was version 2.1. This phone is version 2.3. I decided to try something with my AVIC. I tried to pair the phone and IT WORKED! The big test was to see if it would maintain the pairing after turing off my truck and coming back to it later. Sure enough my EVO connects to my AVIC just fine. So I am back to hands free with my AVIC. It may not seem like much, but it is a nice feature to have. Obviously the phone book will not transfer, but that is ok.

If you still have your Hero, hit up www.xda-developers.com and see if there's a custom ROM for the Hero that bumps your android version from 2.1 to 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.3, 2.3.3, or 2.3.4.

Even if it's a stock ROM update from HTC or an "after market" developed one (I'm running CyanogenMod 7 nightly on my Galaxy S), the updated drivers and bluetooth stack may work with the Pioneer. It's worth a try for nothing other than fun if nothing else It may work too, as long as it was a software based issue and not a hardware based between the AVIC and the Hero

Too bad the AVIC's didn't run Linux, since VW Research released a kernel module that reads and writes CAN information just as you would opening a TCP port and read/write data in C++ ;p

(quick link for anyone who was actually interested by the statement above: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socketcan)